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Hungary

Law enforcement in Hungary

Law enforcement services in Hungary are provided by two principal agencies:

National Police, which includes the border police (Ministry of Interior);

National Tax and Customs Office (Ministry of National Economy).

Hungary’s national police headquarters are located in the 13th District of the capital, in a glass building called “the Police Palace”. Hungary does not have a Gendarmerie nor are there municipal police forces.

INTERPOL Budapest

The INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Hungary is part of Hungary’s International Police Co-operation Centre (NEBEK). NEBEK is one of the biggest units of the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and has nationwide jurisdiction. It receives and processes criminal investigation requests from abroad and is able to take urgent operational action if required.

INTERPOL Budapest is staffed by almost 20 case officers and a liaison officer from the Hungarian Customs. NCB activities are focussed around the following crime fields:

Stolen motor vehicles;

Stolen works of art;

Terrorism;

Financial crime;

Drug related crimes;

Customs cases.

Case officers are able to work in English, French, Spanish and German, but Italian, Romanian and Russian are also spoken.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - INTERPOL’s Capacity Building and Training Directorate, in partnership with the European Police College (CEPOL), conducted the 7th INTERPOL Police Development Programme for National Central Bureaus (NCBs) in Europe.The five-day (16 - 20 March) course at the new CEPOL headquarters focused on developing the awareness and use of INTERPOL t...

LYON, France – More than 8,700 birds and animals, including reptiles, mammals and insects have been seized and nearly 4,000 people arrested in an operation across 32 countries coordinated by INTERPOL against the illegal trade and exploitation of birds and their products.Operation Cage, which included national wildlife enforcement authorities, police, cust...

WARSAW, Poland – Representatives of 10 Eastern European countries gathered last week to learn how to conduct effective investigations into instances of suspected criminal acts involving radiological and nuclear (RN) weapons, materials and technology. Experienced investigators from law enforcement, customs and other security forces teamed up with their cou...

LYON, France – Collaboration and the sharing of police information with INTERPOL to combat transnational organized crime was the focus of a visit today to INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters by Hungary’s High Commissioner of the National Police, Mr Jozsef Hatala.With Hungary due to assume the European Union presidency on 1 January 2011, the meetin...